Re: prestige dialects Re: Why is Hindi perceived as being more refined than Punjabi?

Seán O'Leathlóbhair wrote:

> > "Speech therapists" don't claim to be teaching their victims any
> > particular accent; they claim to be "getting rid of" their victims'
> > accents.
>
> So what does a person with no accent sound like? If your "no accent"
> American comes here then he suddenly will have an accent. Around
> London, I have no accent but if I travel north then suddenly I do. I
> acquire an accent somewhere before reaching Birmingham.

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